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Ed Koch dead at 88
Feb 01, 2013 12:05 pm
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Ed Koch in his office[/caption]
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch died Fri., Feb. 1 of congestive heart failure at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital. He was 88 years old. Koch led the city from 1977 to 1989. Casey Seiler reports at Capitol Confidential on the three-term mayor's thoughts on upstate New York and the rural life, in particular. Rural life, Koch said, was “a joke.” Moving to Albany, he said, would be a “fate worse than death,” “small-town life at its worst.” The comments -- made during an interview with Playboy magazine -- are seen by many as the determining factor in Koch losing the Democratic nomination to then Lt. Gov. Mario Cuomo. Read the full post at Capitol Confidential, a Times Union blog. Read The New York Times obituary.
Ed Koch in his office[/caption]Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch died Fri., Feb. 1 of congestive heart failure at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital. He was 88 years old. Koch led the city from 1977 to 1989. Casey Seiler reports at Capitol Confidential on the three-term mayor's thoughts on upstate New York and the rural life, in particular. Rural life, Koch said, was “a joke.” Moving to Albany, he said, would be a “fate worse than death,” “small-town life at its worst.” The comments -- made during an interview with Playboy magazine -- are seen by many as the determining factor in Koch losing the Democratic nomination to then Lt. Gov. Mario Cuomo. Read the full post at Capitol Confidential, a Times Union blog. Read The New York Times obituary.